Friday, 30 June 2017

Hi
there, it’s Fliss here today with a little inspiration for our current Keep It
Simple challenge over at That’s Crafty! Challenge Blog. I’ve made a simple card
with Donna’s gorgeous bunny for Rubber Dance because my hubby and I had an
anniversary recently and he doesn’t like fussy cards.

Recipe:

Stamp
the bunny and a couple of the large carrot on white stamping card and colour
with markers. I was actually aiming for grey like our 2 Netherland Dwarf
bunnies but the Promarkers I used, although grey, came out more brown than I
was expecting.

I
then die cut a heart shape from a scrap of red card and glued this on to my
card blank. I cut out the rabbit and carrots, leaving a narrow white border and
extending the rabbit’s lines down a little to make a rounded shape. Our bunnies
are a bit like fluff balls!

I
stamped the bunny love text at the bottom of the card blank and then added the
rabbit and carrots with foam tape for dimension.

Thursday, 29 June 2017

Hi everyone, Nikki
here with another project featuring the new TC products launched on Hochanda a
couple of weeks ago. I love all the greyboard embellishments – so versatile,
easy to paint and perfect for embellishing projects large and small.

This design is a 6x6
inch white/greyboard panel. As I have been doing as a base for the new
shimmer paints I started with a layer of PaperArtsy Fresco Paint – chalk
colour. I then sponged primarily That’s Crafty! Orange Shimmer paint with a
little red around the edges. I stamped the crackles from the TC Texture stamp
set and finally lightly sponged a little white to create a worn look.

The embellishments
were done in a similar way with TC Shimmer Paints and white chalk paint:

Clock – Red, White
and Copper

Feather – Red and
Copper

Wildflower – Red

Funky Flower,
Butterfly, Dragonfly – Blue, Aquamarine and Copper

I added a little
paint to a scrap of paper and stamped ‘Moments’ from one of the quotes off the
TC quotes stamp set.

Hopefully you can see
from the close up the wonderful texture you can achieve by sponging on the
paints.

Here's what I did...

I already had a piece of card from a previous
project left over (I keep everything lol), that had been created by swiping the
edge of the two Distress inks across a Gelli Plate and laying down onto smooth
white card stock so I decided to see what Bentley looked like stamped onto it.
I felt he looked rather good and didn't want to waste him so my creation began.

I added some extra colour with pencils. I also
decided to draw in some eyes and change his nose which I did with the fine
liner pen. I then took the tag and sponged on the white acrylic paint.

Once dry I sponged on the Sky paint softly. Using
the sponge adds extra texture. I squeezed out a little of the Lapis paint and
added some water and using a paint brush, flicked the paint over to add some
splashes. I felt the splashes were a little dark so I knocked it back by taking
a sponge with the white paint and lightly sponged over the tag to soften the
look. Now happy I took the Textures Stamp Set and the Dinky Bubbles stencil and
used the square hessian looking stamp to stamp through some of the circles with
the cobalt ink pad. I then took another element from the stamp plate that has
the circles on it and holding it in my hand so I could use just a small element
of it, stamped with the Orange blossom ink pad randomly over the tag.

I then took another element from the stamp set
which looks like scribbled lines and used the Orange Blossom ink pad to stamp
all around the edges of the tag. I then went back to the hessian looking stamp
and again, holding it, I used the Plum to just touch around the edges to darken
it. Now happy with the look I took the Dinky Brick stencil and Umber paint to
blend through and create the brick work. All these steps were also used on the
base of the upright too.

I glued Bentley in place. He looked like he was a
little grumpy and that's when the wording sprang to mind. I typed the words
into my P-Touch and stuck them onto smooth white card so that I could ensure
they stuck well on the tag. I placed the wording and stamped the word Smile
from the Bentley stamp plate in black Archival ink directly onto the tag. I
used the flower from the Beki stamp set and stamped 5. I cut the flowers and
leaves and used the drawing inks to colour them.

Once the flowers were dry I shaped them and using
the Pinflare Glue Gel I glued them onto the tag. Bentley needed a little bling
so I took three gems from my stash and stuck them on his collar. I added a few
white highlight on Bentley with the white Posca pen and finished off by using
the black fineliner to extend Bentley whiskers and draw round the wording.

Tuesday, 27 June 2017

I’m back this week having made a card from a leftover piece
from my make from a couple of weeks ago, you will find the details of that make
HERE. It basically is the leftover
piece after I was playing with alcohol inks through a stencil and this is what
came off when I cleaned the stencil with blending solution. I have cleaned the
stencil off onto deli paper but any card or paper would probably work.

As a
reminder here is that background

Here’s What I Did:

As I
had used deli paper I glued it onto a piece of card using a spray glue so it
didn’t crinkle at all, you could also use a self-adhesive sheet. I then stamped
the main image, I have stamped her using the Tim Holtz Stamping Platform as I
thought it might take a couple of inking ups to get a clean stamped image and
also I wanted to colour parts of her with paint and then re stamp the image to
get very clean lines around where I painted. So with a platform stamp your
image but do not remove either your stamp of your card held in place with the
magnets. I then painted in her head and arms with blush paint which is totally
opaque as I didn’t want the background to show through at all. Once the paint
was dry I then inked up the stamp again and stamped the image again this cleans
up all the edges of where you have painted. Once you are happy with your
stamped image you can remove the stamp from the platform.

I then
masked parts of her off with a post it note and using the stamping platform
stamped the large plant behind her. I then painted the plant with opaque
paints, once again working on the platform and leaving the stamp in place and
when the paint was dry stamped the image neatening up all the edges. For
techniques like this you really do need a stamping platform as you would never
be able to stamp in axactly the same place twice without one. To be honest, as
an experienced stamper, I didn’t think I needed one but took the plunge and now
I wouldn’t be with out it. It’s great if you are stamping over slight texture
or painted surfaces as you can keep re-inking your stamp until you are happy
with the image.

The
rest of the colouring is from using coloured pencils. The caterpillar was
stamped and coloured on a separate piece of card and cut out. The final
addition was the sentiment which has been stamped and painted using the same stamping
technique with the platform.

Monday, 26 June 2017

This sweet girl is out on her tour, trying
to catch a wonderful dragonfly in her netting.

She is stamped directly onto the
wonderful That`s Crafty! Surfaces White/Greyboard Postcard after it had dried, from a coat of gesso and
from sprays made with Infusions: Slime, Royal Blood and Sleight Blue. Her dress
was then painted with Slime dissolved in water, using a cotton bud.

When all dry, I used the snow drop
stencil with texture paste to form the snowdrop heads and above them, the
dragonflies stencil too. Leaves and stems, were added with the stencil using
Archival Ink in Leaf Green. Infusions Slime, dissolved in water, added details
on the flower head, when painted onto the white heads.

After the dragonflies had dried, they
got a coat of Crackle Paste and left to
dry again. I then dripped Walnut Ink into the crackles to make the wings look a
little realistic J

The sky was created with Archival
Ink Hydrangea also added with a cotton bud.

The beautiful border from That’s
Crafty! Word Stencil: Imagine was added with Archival Ink Coffee on top and
bottom of the Surface. Lynne’s lovely Affirmation, was stamped also with
Archival Inks in Coffee, on a stained paper piece and added on top of a piece
of tulle.

In the top right corner I also
adhered a piece of tulle, in same green tones, and finished with a beautiful
Abalone shell button.

Lastly, I added Archival Ink Coffee
onto all four edges of the postcard.

Good Morning, Afternoon, Evening
everyone, where ever you are in the world I hope you are keeping well?
It's my turn to share a little That's Crafty! Creativity with you all and
today i'm showcasing a project using new paints and surfaces from the That's Crafty! range.

Here in words and
pictures is my Dance of the Dragonflies Panel:

Covering a 4.5" x 9"
White/Greyboard panel in white Gesso I pushed crackle paste through the Abstract Stones Dinky stencil randomly around the board. When dry I brushed
Blue and Turquoise Shimmer Paints all over the panel drying each coat with a
heat tool. I repeated the process again and wiped back areas of the paint to
expose the colours underneath using a wet wipe.

I stamped script from the Textures Stamp Set 2 using Versafine and heat embossed using Stampendous Gold. Pink Shimmer
paint was dabbed in areas around the panel and heat set with added embossing
powder.

The wings of the Dragonfly Greyboard Bits and Pieces have been stamped using the wings from Lynnes Affirmations Set 2 and heat
embossed. The bodies have been painted with shimmer paints and roughly wire
wrapped to add interest. Gilding wax has been rubbed across the wings to bring
their delicate detail out.

Antique Gold paint has been delicately
dabbed in between the crackled areas, around the Dragonflies and the panels
edge. The Dragonflies have been glued on to the shimmering background
completing My Dance of the Dragonflies Panel...

Thank you for taking time to visit and
check out all the wonderful new products from That's Crafty! I look forward to
sharing more with you the same time next week. Until then Take Care and Stay
Safe everyone.

Sunday, 25 June 2017

This
week I am sharing a second sample made for That Crafty’s recent HOCHANDA
shows.

Now
this was tricky to photograph because I applied lots of the beautiful That’s
Crafty! Pearl paint which I wanted to try to capture in the photographs.

You
know I like my wee narratives! The two
girls are sheltering beneath a beautiful blossom during a summer’s day
rainfall, clutching hands as they shelter and sharing their secrets with only
the butterfly to hear their sweet thoughts.

Instructions

Prepare
tag with Gesso before applying chalk acrylics with a scraping technique. Begin to add stamping. Continue by applying more paint, this time
including the Pearl acrylic, in the same fashion as the first layer, adding
more stamping and repeating until reasonably satisfied. I say “reasonably” because I am never, ever
satisfied!

With
the same paints, paint large and small butterflies and flowers. I also painted some of the pieces popped out
from the embellishments.

Stamping
was added to some of the greyboard embellishments.

Create
a large flower from the large flower head and two stalks. Top it with the large
butterfly.